Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jeff King wrote: There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. Take only one or two students and get the entire community involved in learning from the GSoC experience, so we can do a bigger one next year. -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff King wrote: There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. I think we should do it. It looks strange

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: It is preferrable if the decision were accompanied with a concrete plan for us to prepare our mentoring capability better (if we want to participate in future GSoC, that is), but I think it is a separate issue, and I suspect that

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Christian Couder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff King wrote: There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: What I gathered from the discussion so far is that everybody agrees that our mentoring has been suboptimal in various ways (not enough encouragement to engage with the

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jeff King wrote: There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. [...] In my opinion, a lot of the issues come down to project selection; Let me throw in some other issues. :) * I think the git project has been very disorganized in

Re: Git and GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff King wrote: There was a big thread about a month ago on whether Git should do Google Summer of Code this year[1]. I think we should do it. It looks strange to me to say that students are great and at the same